The Goldfinch

[Erik T. Burns]

I read The Goldfinch. It was pretty engaging, hard to put down. Fun
stuff (especially the Las Vegas section). But yeah, much more
Dickensian than Pynchonesque.

On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 8:19 PM, Rebecca Lindroos <bekker2 at me.com> wrote:
> I've read both GR and The Goldfinch and a comparison never entered my mind until you brought it up. I've read all the others by both authors and that may have skewed my approach to The Goldfinch.
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> Bekah
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>> On May 9, 2014, at 5:57 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> If you have read it, and you have read the opening of Gravity's Rainbow some multiple of the times you have read Gravity's Rainbow, is the influence on Ms. Tartt's opening chapter very clear---with a " there, there" homage to Catch-22---or clearly projected by this reader
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